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In May of 1942, across the rugged sub-Arctic wilderness of
Alaska, British Columbia, and Yukon Territory,  thousands
of American soldiers began one of the biggest and most difficult
construction projects ever undertaken -- the building of the Alaska
Highway.See the story of how they they endured ice, snow and bitter cold; battled mud, muskeg and mosquitoes; bridged raging rivers; graded lofty peaks; and cut pathways through primeval forests to push a 1,520-mile road across one of the world's harshest landscapes. In February on Alabama Public Television. |
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